Note: This show periodically replaces their ad breaks with new promotional clips. Because of this, both the transcription for the clips and the timestamps after them may be inaccurate at the time of viewing this transcript. 00:00:00 Music Transition Dark Materia’s “The Picard Song,” record-scratching into a Sisko- centric remix by Adam Ragusea. Picard: Here’s to the finest crew in Starfleet! Engage. [Music begins. A fast-paced techno beat.] Picard: Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the USS Enterprise! [Music slows, record scratch, and then music speeds back up.] Sisko: Commander Benjamin Sisko, the Federation starbase... Deep Space 9. [Music ends.] 00:00:14 Music Transition Record scratch back into "The Picard Song," which plays quietly in the background. 00:00:15 Adam Host Welcome to The Greatest Generation: Deep Space Nine. It's a Star Pranica Trek podcast by a couple of guys who are a little bit embarrassed about having a Star Trek podcast, and... looking at each other during. I'm Adam Pranica. [Ben laughs.] [A notification sound plays.] 00:00:29 Ben Harrison Host I'm Ben Harrison. 00:00:30 Adam Host We've not broken quarantine. 00:00:32 Ben Host We're using modern... telephony to look at each other during. 00:00:37 Adam Host We've been hearing all of these other podcasts struggle with this, and we thought "You know?" [Ben laughs quietly.] "Sure—" [Laughs.] 00:00:42 Ben Host "Why don't we struggle with it too?" 00:00:43 Adam Host Yeah. [Both laugh.] "Why not unnecessarily jump into that viper's pit of technology?" 00:00:50 Ben Host The difference between our podcast and other podcasts, though, is that we're such anal-retentive freaks— 00:00:54 Adam Host Yeah. 00:00:55 Ben Host —that if there's lag on this, we're gonna go through and individually edit every single bit of audio that has gaps in it. 00:01:04 Adam Host It's true. 00:01:05 Ben Host To take the lag out. 00:01:06 Adam Host Yeah. 00:01:07 Ben Host So it will be imperceptible to the listeners, but we may have just made a real—a real headache for ourselves. [Laughs.] 00:01:15 Adam Host I mean, I'm asking myself why we would do such a thing, and in looking at you, I know why! It's worth it! [Ben laughs.] It's worth it to see what's happened to you, Ben Harrison. [Both laugh.] Uh, I've never seen you with longer hair. I think you look great. 00:01:31 Ben Host I— 00:01:32 Adam Host I think you should keep growing it out. 00:01:33 Ben Host I look like I'm heading toward the end of my first semester of college. Like I've never lived away from my parents before, and I've just been eating nothing but breakfast cereal and burgers in the dining hall. [Adam laughs.] I'm—I am a mess right now. [Laughs.] 00:01:48 Adam Host It's worth it seeing that crazed look in your eyes. 00:01:53 Ben Host [Laughs.] You look great! You look like you've been keeping yourself in good shape! 00:01:57 Adam Host Aw, I wouldn't say that. Remember, I don't have to shave every day. 00:02:01 Ben Host Right. 00:02:02 Adam Host And, uh—and I guess, for some reason, my hair grows slower. But you know what, here's the thing, your haircut and my haircut are very different in that when your hair gets longer it goes over the front. And as my hair grows it goes over the back. [Ben laughs.] This is the difference in styling that benefits me and hinders you, I think. 00:02:23 Ben Host Yeah. I've never been more tempted to just buzz it. You know? I— 00:02:26 Adam Host I've been thinking the same. I've had dark thoughts. 00:02:31 Ben Host It's like, I don't want to look like a white supremacist. But I'm also not really going outside that much, so... [Laughs.] 00:02:36 Adam Host Yeah. 00:02:37 Ben Host There wouldn't really be anyone to see me looking terrible. 00:02:41 Adam Host I don't think I would be any more or less laughable-looking if I were to look like a space monkey. [Ben laughs.] I think it's—I think it's neutral. 00:02:50 Ben Host Yeah. 00:02:51 Adam Host If I just put that number three guard on, and just hit it. I don't— [Ben laughs.] I don't have the equipment for that, Ben! I don't—I don't think my body trimmer would be able to take on what my head is producing. 00:03:02 Ben Host [Mock outrage/disgust] "You're gonna use the same trimmer on your hair as you use on your nuts?! That's gross!" [Adam laughs.] 00:03:06 Clip Clip Speaker 1: You fucking pube-beard fuck! Speaker 2: Yeah, you pube-beard fuck! Speaker 1: The fuck's the matter with you?! 00:03:10 Adam Host I can't do that. 00:03:11 Ben Host I actually don't really care about that at all. [Laughs.] 00:03:14 Clip Clip Speaker 1: That's just nasty, man! What the fuck? 00:03:15 Adam Host I mean, yeah. You're a famous tub-pissman. 00:03:18 Ben Host How dare you? [One or both laugh quietly.] 00:03:19 Adam Host You're mixing it all up, Ben! 00:03:20 Ben Host You are so fucking uptight if you've never pissed in a tub. 00:03:24 Adam Host I piss in the shower all the time, while it's running. 00:03:26 Music Music Majestic background music. 00:03:27 Adam Host [Over-emphasizing] While it's running! [Ben laughs.] I prescribe to the Forrest Gump rule of— 00:03:34 Ben Host Uh-huh. 00:03:35 Adam Host —of shower urination. 00:03:37 Ben Host I prescribe to the rule of [Forrest Gump impression] "Piss and showers go together like peas and carrots." [Both laugh.] 00:03:48 Adam Host See, the show is going so much better already. [Ben laughs.] I think—I think seeing each other is bringing the bits out of us. 00:03:55 Ben Host Yeah, yeah, it's really going great. Do you wanna get into the episode? [Both laugh.] [Music stops.] 00:04:00 Adam Host I—you know what, I can see that you really mean that. So I think we might have to. Let's get into Deep Space Nine season six, episode nine—S6E9, Ben. Nice. [Laughs.] 00:04:11 Ben Host Ohhh shiiit! I didn't even notice that! 00:04:13 Adam Host "Statistical Probabilities." 00:04:18 Music Transition A techno song mixed with clips and soundbites from DS9. Sisko: Ow! Do you realize how incredible this is? Ow! Ha ha! Ow! Ha ha ha! Hoo! No... Of course you don't! [Music stops.] 00:04:26 Adam Host We get an Anson Williams director credit here, Ben! Are you familiar? [Stifles laughter.] With the great Anson Williams, the actor from Happy Days? He played Potsie! This is someone that—I mean, if we don't call attention to this, friend of the podcast Bill Tilley will— 00:04:43 Ben Host He'll divorce us? 00:04:44 Adam Host —excoriate us. [Ben laughs quietly.] I mean, I never watched Happy Days. That—that predates my syndicated television consumption. 00:04:52 Ben Host Uh-huh. 00:04:53 Adam Host I'm not sure if you ever watched it. But, uh— 00:04:56 Ben Host Uh, no, I don't think I did! 00:04:57 Adam Host I'm gonna be like, kicking the side of my computer as we edit this thing. 00:05:03 Clip Clip [CLANG!] [Smooth jukebox music starts. Audience laughs.] 00:05:07 Adam Host To get the waveforms to go. 00:05:09 Ben Host [Laughs.] Yeah. [Music fades out.] 00:05:09 Adam Host "Eyyy!" 00:05:11 Ben Host "Ey." [Adam laughs.] Uh, we've got some really, uh, poorly-adjusted folks—uh, have made a trip to Deep Space 9. And we come to understand that this is a group of people—they've got like a Starfleet Medical person talking to them about why they've come to Deep Space 9. But we come to understand that these are mutants, segregated out of society. They're not considered capable of taking care of themselves and/or are a danger to themselves and others. So they live apart from society, under supervision. And this lady is their supervisor. 00:05:49 Adam Host [Stifles laughter.] You know how there's like ten different versions of the X-Men, with like a descriptive word before the title? 00:05:54 Ben Host Oh, yeah. Yeah. 00:05:55 Adam Host Like The Uncanny X-Men— 00:05:57 Ben Host [Chuckling] Uh-huh. 00:05:58 Adam Host The Unbelievable X-Men. These are the Unpopular X-Men. [Ben laughs.] 00:06:01 Music Music Brief action music. 00:06:05 Ben Host They really are.